12-letter words containing c, e, f, u, r
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
- fruit-picker — a person or a tool that picks fruit from trees
- fudge factor — any variable component added to an experiment, plan, or the like that can be manipulated to allow leeway for error.
- full-service — offering or providing a wide range of services related to the basic line of business, as when a filling station changes tires or makes car repairs in addition to selling gasoline.
- fumariaceous — belonging to the plant family Fumariaceae.
- furfuraceous — of or containing bran.
- furnace room — a room containing a furnace or an enclosed chamber for producing heat, often on the bottom floor of the building that it heats
- future shock — physical and psychological disturbance caused by a person's inability to cope with very rapid social and technological change.
- gift voucher — gift certificate.
- gracefullest — Superlative form of graceful.
- gracefulness — The state of being graceful.
- ground force — a military force that operates on the ground
- half-century — a period of 100 years.
- hard-surface — to make the surface of (something) hard or firm, as by compacting or paving it: to hard-surface a parking area.
- hypersurface — a mathematical object that generalizes the concept of surface from three-dimensional Euclidean space to hyperspace.
- in course of — in the process of
- in your face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- in-your-face — involving confrontation; defiant; provocative.
- interfaculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- interfluence — the action of flowing together or merging
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- kupfernickel — (archaic) cupronickel.
- labour force — The labour force consists of all the people who are able to work in a country or area, or all the people who work for a particular company.
- laffer curve — a relationship postulated between tax rates and tax receipts indicating that rates above a certain level actually produce less revenue because they discourage taxable endeavors and vice versa.
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- manufacturer — a person, group, or company that owns or runs a manufacturing plant.
- manufactures — Plural form of manufacture.
- mercifulness — full of mercy; characterized by, expressing, or showing mercy; compassionate: a merciful God.
- misconfigure — Configure (a system or part of it) incorrectly.
- moschiferous — giving off or producing musk
- motherfucker — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- muffle color — Ceramics. a color fired onto an object in a muffle kiln.
- multifurcate — forked; branching.
- muscle fiber — one of the structural cells of a muscle.
- muscle fibre — any of the numerous elongated contractile cells that make up striated muscle
- nuclear fuel — Physics. fissile or fertile material that undergoes fission in a nuclear reactor.
- nuclear-free — A nuclear-free place is a place where nuclear energy or nuclear weapons are forbidden.
- office hours — hours when a business is open
- out of reach — beyond arm's length
- outer office — the reception area of an office, outside of the main working area
- overfocussed — too focussed
- postfracture — taking place after a fracture
- pseudo force — any force that is postulated to account for apparent deviations from Newton's laws of motion appearing in an accelerated reference system.
- purple finch — a North American finch, Carpodacus purpureus, having a raspberry-red head, breast, and rump.
- putrefaction — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- putrefactive — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- quarry-faced — rock-faced.
- quick-freeze — to freeze (cooked or uncooked food) rapidly, permitting it to be stored almost indefinitely at freezing temperatures.
- recentrifuge — to subject (a liquid) to the action of a centrifuge again